Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.

Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope

I started blocking like a madman and my experience improved considerably

I know what you mean. I've been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I'm not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don't find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I'm trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn't let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it's just echausting for I don't know what. I miss the memes (I don't get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don't have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren't the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.

I'm somehow in a similar yet completely different boat from you. My feed under all is made up of like 5 communities - memes, lemmy memes, 196, linux memes, and programmer humor - with guest appearances by politics and technology. Regardless of what I set the filter on my feed to, I have yet to see a single piece of porn crop up; and I had to specifically find a search tool on my pc to find some communities to subscribe to like an r/foodporn equivalent just so I would at least have some stuff pop up on my phone with some more variety related to my interests.

This is probably all related to Lemmy being new and not knowing how to get the most out of the app I'm using (and that being new as well), but as of right now I'm largely using Lemmy the way I used to use Twitter X or something rather than how I used to use Reddit. As a time waster rather than a place where I got invested in the communities I interacted with.

Yeah you really have to block the annoying communities. I did have to do that on Reddit too as well though. And subscribe to some nice stuff so you have a good home feed to look at when All isn't working for you.

It's still growing so it'll get better! I hope

I'm pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!

Much to my dismay I have yet to see a single boob on Lemmy

tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy

You'll find your niche here I bet... Give it time

9/10s of mine is food and cute animals.

!politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it's hard to encourage that.

I too left reddit, and lemmy so far works for going to sleep. It's a different flavor but it's still great for helping me drift off......... Zzzzz....

This is how Reddit was in the beginning, too. Over time things will change, until then, blocking works wonders.

I am really enjoying the statement on being a straight woman, but unlike the rest of your statements you didn't elaborate on boobs.

Shh… you can block communities. (You habe to see them at least once though :/)

If they're all on the same instance, there app that can block entire instances.

I literally never seen anything Furry on Lemmy, but it took me 2 minutes on Bkuesky to find not one but two prolific Bara artists.

Yes! in my streaming service too please

This with the power of a thousand suns

Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh

I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.

It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.

A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it's only for US politics. But it's not called "usonlypolitics" it's called "politics". Somehow they don't see the problem with that.

Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.

Which instances local have less content on politics or us politics? Beside lemmynsfw of course

There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn't saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.

I rarely see all of that crap here and it's honestly very refreshing.

It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There's a com for every single team, every single league, and more.

Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there's a lot of them.

Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).

What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?

This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.

No, they've gone plaid.

Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.

Hentai is my favourite sport

that moment when you're just trying to hide nba posts but you accidentally hide your beloved 'cocknballtorture' communities 😔

I love Sync!

Thanks, I never knew this is a thing.

I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.

Please tell me those are your whitelist keywords

Especially US politics. I couldn't care less.

Or as some Americans say, "I could care less"

I’ve taken to staying away from “all” just to try and isolate myself from the madness that those people are involved in. What an absolute acid trip of a country.

I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.

I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.

This would be freaking awesome. Doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to add, but then again, I'm not a developer.

On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we're already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.

I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I'm also still figuring out this whole place.

I don't think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!

This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there's just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.

Swallow community

..maybe keep an nsfw tag on that one. just in case

Yes but what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

The problem, as always, is people. People would either forget to tag their posts or intentionally abuse the system. It's hard enough for mods to tag actual NSFW as such, giving them 5 additional tags to monitor for isn't going to help them at all.

I do really wish we could get a system like this though. There were many times in my younger days I was browsing /r/all without NSFW filtered out expecting the occasional surprise boob and would see things that could cause a legitimate need for therapy.

I think this could end up too fine-grained, or perhaps some sort of heriachy system.

Maybe "nsfw/gore/minor-injury", and allowing you to block everything under "nsfw/gore"?

But you need to ensure that the top level instances use the same(ish) tags. If i block nsfw/gore, but the random small instances just tags things just gore.... then I'm gonna have a bad time.

Yeah. One per sport all team. There's a lot of sport ball teams.

What is most creepy about it is that all the "women" look like kids. They look like little girls with really big boobs. I don't understand the appeal.

I dont think I've literally ever seen that happen and I've been on the Internet since I could walk

Almost every "comics" community I've joined on here has gone from people talking about actual published comics to people postin webcomics and their own works within days.

I'm the same, I routinely filter out anime stuff. Probably the most annoying thing is that I started playing FFXiV and now my in-line adverts are for gaccha anime crap and generally super cringe/bonk horny.

Pretty sure it's mostly one user creating all those communities, too. Odd behavior.

If you are using android, connect for lemmy can block instances. It is much more peaceful. It even blocks the comments from the users. Although you can have them show as you come across them if you so choose.

There apps that can filter entire instances

This is horrible imo. I personally turned off NSFW since I don't really care about missing out on gore or the likes.

That is already possible, at least on the 2 apps I've used. Don't know about the browser version, but most apps have this option.

FYI: I use this usercript to block whole instances: https://greasyfork.org/... You need to edit line 17

Here adapted to work also with MLMYM (https://old.lemmy.world): https://pastebin.com/z0mShfDP

The real content doesn't appear in its feed when you're not logged in (due to being NSFW), so it misleadingly seems like the celebrity stuff is the only content there. You need to visit specific communities such as !gonewild@lemmynsfw.com.

Amen

Why did you subscribe to it? Or are you browsing All instead of Subscribed?

Not good at 'bombardment', huh?

Sports are fun man, just pick something up and throw it -- it feels good!

I'd like to hide all references to Elon Musk, but that's most of what "tech" is these day anyway.

i see multiple posts from the NFL, Hockey and football(soccer) communities daily on my all feed. I don't care about sports, I care about life and world views, as well as tech. Sports is really nothing more than showing off who can be the biggest asshole

exportable block/ban lists would actually be kind of cool

LASIM can back up your block list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13uNlRXZrk

We need cock fighting

Thats the best !!

I'll play most sports (poorly) for fun, but I agree that I really don't get the appeal of watching them.

Going to see them in person can be kind of fun, but for me that has more to do with the overall experience than with watching the sport itself. Really don't get the appeal of watching them on TV.

Minor exceptions for the more unusual sports you sometimes see on ESPN 8 or whatever, they can be kind of fun to have on in the background so you can glance over at it once in a while and be like "What the hell is that? Professional Cornhole? Of course that's a thing."

Thank God for The METS. Slava Ukraini

If past trends are to be believed, not only will every sport have its own community, but every team in said sport will have its own community

I don't want to have to systematically block 300-1000 different communities manually

Where's the line drawn tho? So many things can be classified as politics

Yes. Please help us learn how to get more sports in our feed!

Can you do that with Jerboa?

Exactly. I'm too lazy to set filters and what not, but I just know what I'm getting into for the All feed. I deal with that until I can't take it, add a few communities, and retreat back to the safety of Subscribed.

And a hide Hentai/Manga/Anime button. I don’t understand its popularity.

Porn/Comics/TV Series are popular. They’re just variants of those, not really that hard to understand.

That's what keyword filters are for? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤪

Some clients such as Sync have that

I also don't see any sports stuff when I'm on lemmy.world, which I think is the same instance as the original poster? I don't know what's accounting for my different experience either.

Oof I forgot about motor sports. IMO even more boring than ball sports.

Which I didn't think was possible, but I forgot about motor/wheel sports existence

"Have you seen that ludicrous display last night?"

This is madness!

Someone went out of their way to create a bespoke response for when a user blocks an NSFW community. It immediately asks you if you'd like to block all NSFW or just the community in question. There is no other subject given similar treatment.

I may want to stay on the instance I'm currently on and occasionally poke fun at notions like this, because that's a good way for me to help better frame my thinking and share it with others. Even if it's in a silly place like showerthoughts.

I feel like people like sports because they give them an opportunity to act obnoxiously in public. Like, if someone stands up and yells in a restaurant, it's definitely some sports obsessed dude who wants some attention. I agree with you. I never want to hear about any sports again ever.

That's kind of how this whole thing is supposed to work though, so yeah, it's a legit concern. And in this example, since the thing they don't want to see is so massively popular, it's everywhere.

Imagine how annoyed you would be seeing something you can't stand everywhere you go, and dozens of times on a site you thought you could avoid it at.

I don't care much seeing a random post that I don't care about, but when it's content that I fucking hate, I look for ways to not have to put up with it when possible, unless it becomes more work than just scrolling past it.

Assuming you actually want to know...

Because if you're not into them, the constant flood of sports stuff is annoying. I'm not interested in the NFL or the NCAA, and I never will be. But every damn year the Superbowl and March Madness take over for a month or more. Being able to just shunt all that crap off to the side would be nice.